Here is a handy tip about PHP’s json_encode function.
In some cases numeric data may appear as numeric strings, for example 1 as “1″. While consuming the json data on a client app that would mean an extra parsing to get for example an int from the string.
The solution is to simply use an extra option (JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK) on the json_encode function call:
<?php echo json_encode($data, JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK); ?>
I have to point out that this option requires a PHP version of 5.3.3 or higher.
